William Osler

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn…

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we…

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it…

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the…

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness…

The future is today…

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but…

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability…

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher…

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals…

The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the…

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants…

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for…

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely…

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken…